China Agricultural Policy Research Center, Peking University China Agricultural Policy Research Center, Peking University

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Email: [email protected]

 

Research Interest: development economics, labor economics, public economics
 

Yue Wang obtained her PhD degree in economics at Cornell University in 2021. Her research
involves two main topics: (1) how the digital technology, such as e-commerce, facilitates economic development rural area; and (2) the evolution and mechanism for distribution inequality in China.

Education
2014-2021 Ph.D. in economics, Cornell University
2012-2014 Master of Public Administration, Cornell University
2008-2012 B.A. in economics, Peking University

 

Employment experience
September 2021- present, Assistant Professor and Research Fellow at China Center for Agricultural Policy, School of Advanced Agricultural Sciences, PKU

 

Consulting experience
Yue Wang has been short-term consultant for the World Bank and IFPRI projects.

 

Publication
The Great Chinese Inequality Turnaround", Ravi Kanbur, Yue Wang* and Xiaobo
Zhang, Journal of Comparative Economics, Volume 49, Issue 2, June 2021,
Pages 467-482.